...Professional nurses have many roles to play, the nurses has roles to play in carrying out clinical duty, supervisory, administrative, educational, communication and research activities. One primary role of the professional nurse is to care for patients and ensure that they receive the best care, so that they could have a good state of health and well being. In maintaining this role, the nurse has to educate, teach and train patients, their family members, staff and students to ensure that patient can care for themselves and that fellow nurses give safe competent care to the patients. In the clinical area, to ensure the patients understands his health-illness state and able to cope with his health – illness state, the nurses should be caring and competence. Each nurses working in the field are made to be competent, their competency are checked regularly by the head nurse or CRN/ educators. The current trends is to make all nurses completed their competency during 3 months orientation and repeat the competency checklist according to schedule either yearly or two yearly. Nursing is a science and an art. The art of nursing allows nurses to put into practice what they have learnt in theory. It is in the clinical area that nurses, get the opportunity to have practical experiences so as to be competent in nursing. Clinical experiences make nurses involves in a process that requires knowledge, skills and attitude base on her previous exposure and learning experiences. Clinical experiences...
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...Approaches to self managed learning This report will have the information about how self-managed learning can enhance lifelong development by evaluating the approaches to self managed learning, ways in which lifelong learning in personal and professional contexts could be encouraged and the benefits of self managed learning to the individual and organisation. There will be also information about my own current skills and competencies against professional standards and those of organisation objectives. Identifying of my own development needs and what activities are required to meet them. Personal development opportunities I have got in meeting current and future needs. INTRODUCTION Self-managed learning is a way people or individual find different ways in learning things, which could be in the society they are living or at work that is a diversified environment. Self-managed learning also is about setting out the goals for the learning by evaluating the purpose for learning and ways to achieve such goals. People learn new things example the culture of different people, behaviour, personality, perceptions etc. Individual can learn things not only in class but also through friends, news papers etc. Self-managed learning gives people a chance to come up with their own strategy in learning, though sometimes people take a short term in learning something that could be maybe to enable them to pass the exam, or completing a project, it is important for people to acquire such knowledge...
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...Personal Development Plan Leadership is a continuous process involving change and growth (Anbuvelan, 2007). While some people may opt to believe they have been born leaders, I prefer to hold the perception that leaders are made. It takes time and substantial development to reach a certain level of leadership. This is an outline of my professional development plan. In it, my SWOT analysis is completed, my competency gaps highlighted and prospective future positions of leadership explored based on the skill I hope to attain. SWOT Analysis Every individual, like an entity, has strengths and weaknesses in character. These characteristics create certain opportunities in their lives which may be explored or overlooked. The characteristics also encourage threats to development, which may arise from within the individual or from other people in their immediate environment (Guskey, 2002). Strengths I have many positive aspects in my character that may be perceived as strengths in my quest for leadership and professional development. One of these strengths has been the fact that I have always held leadership positions ever since I was a child. Positions of leadership during school life not only grant an individual the chance to lead others, but it also enables the development of virtues like confidence and humility. Once when I was a child in 10th grade, I had to host an entire parent’s meeting. I must admit, throughout my professional...
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...Kaplan University Graduate School of Business & Management Self Directed Learning Plan Instructions The Self Directed Learning Plan (SDLP) is a process and document to chronicle your accomplishments and learning steps through the Master’s program and beyond as they relate to your professional goals. The SDLP will help you to identify and target the array of competencies you need to reach your professional objectives and to help you organize your Kaplan Master’s learning experience to suit your career objectives. The SDLP will be a section of your Program Portfolio, so take some quality introspective time to consider strengths and areas of development relevant to your career objectives. We encourage you to contact Career Services for feedback on relevant competencies for your career goal, as well as other insights. By knowing your strengths and areas to develop, you can begin a plan to find out what you need to do to achieve your career goals. We encourage you to continue to reflect on the identified areas throughout the Master’s program. If you feel strength or development area is no longer relevant, you may add another to take its place. At any time, you may also add additional areas. SECTION 1: Strengths to Leverage Step 1a: The most effective and satisfied people align their work with their natural strong points. Identify 3-5 of your key strengths; these could be a competency, skill, ability, knowledge area or personal characteristic. Think about how...
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...of Phoenix Axia College 11 Professional Development Plan Shelia Brock There are many things to consider when becoming a teacher. There are also many things to remember once the position of teaching has been reached. Having a professional development plan is something to keep in mind when beginning and going through the teaching experience. By creating this professional development plan I will be able to apply what I have learned in this class to my professional career. Here I will discuss my professional development plans to ensure that all students have a clear understanding that having an education is important and can lead to much success in their future. When many hear professional development plan, they automatically think anything that goes along with work. They will never think that their opinion or thought has anything to do with their professional development plan. Only the individual can assess their own professional development plan and know what areas they need improvement on. Professional development plans can also be tweaked a little bit when assessing it and seeing what areas needs improvement on. In the next five years I plan on completing my Associates degree in elementary education and possibly pursuing my Bachelors. I also plan to continue to work in the position that I currently hold if not assistant, then lead teacher. I also plan to explore to find out what needs to be done for me to possibly begin my own school or some sort of child...
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...Introduction 2 Task 1 Methods to Improve Personal and Professional Skills • Counselling 3 • Mentoring 3 • Differences 3-4 Professional Development Skills to Help Meet Personal or Organizational Goals and Objectives • Conflict Management 4 • Delegating With Confidence 4 • Meeting the Challenge of Administrative Leadership 5 Time Management 5 The Value of continuous Professional Development to the Organization and the Individual 5 • Value to the Individual 6 • Value to the Employer 6 Task 2 Personal Skills Audit • Purpose 7-8 Importance of Identifying Learning Style 8 How to Monitor the Effectiveness of My Own Learning Style 8-9 Task 3 The Purpose of a Personal Development Plan (PDP) 10-11 My Skills Audit as a Business Development Officer 12-14 Personal Development Plan for Current Position as Business Development Officer 15-16 Conclusion 16 References 17 Advanced Professional Development Introduction Advanced Professional Development is a programme designed to guide learners in being accountable for their learning and development needs to meet personal, professional, and organizational goals and objectives in order to remain competitive in a globalized working environment. This paper seeks to: • Explore methods to improve personal and professional skills to meet organizational and own goals and objectives. • Carry...
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...Executive summery This academic report is give an enhance knowledge of developing a comprehensive personal and professional development strategies where summarized as below. Chapter 01 Steps of Developing Professional Development Plan and CV Chapter 02 Evaluation on Professional Development Plan Chapter 03 Highlighted on Interpersonal and transferable skills Chapter 04 Focus on Learning in a professional context Table of contents Executive summary 01 Table of contents 02 Chapter 01 03-09 1.1 Introduction on Personal and Professional Development 1.2 Self Assessment 1.3 Personal SWOT Analysis 1.4 Skill Audit 1.5 Personal Development Plan 1.6 Curriculum vitae Chapter 02 10 2.1 Evaluation on Personal Development Plan Chapter 03 11-13 3.1 Interpersonal and transferable skills 3.2 Time Management 3.3 Problem solving 3.4 Communication Chapter 04 14 4.1 Learning Bibliography 15 Chapter 01 1.1 Introduction on Personal and Professional Development Understanding skills, attitudes and knowledge is helpful to develop personal and professional career. According to the Guskey and Huberman (1995)Professional development is those processes and activities designed to enhance the professional knowledge, skills and attitudes of individuals in a working environment so that they might, in turn enhance the performance of the overall organization. This is an ongoing, systematic...
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...PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN Ibrahim Landajani Instructors Name Business Date PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN There is a need for individual to set their personal development plan in life. The fundamental element of being a professional is to set goals that are not too high but all the challenges should be present. The personal development plan must be reasonable, attainable and achievable. This means that goals should pose certain challenges like in the application of SMART Approach which are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-bounded. The unit of measure for the development plan should be objective rather than subjective. The focus of the personal development plan should be on end results based on stated goals. My main goal in life is to accomplish my Masteral Education Degree to be fully qualified employee with one of the best organization in the country where I can transfer the knowledge that I acquired to all the people regardless of their backgrounds. I plan to achieve this goal by completing my Masteral Degree. The active learning process that I acquired in the academe will be valuable in the workplace and record of my achievement and success is invaluable for my Curriculum Vitae and application writing. Description of the Problem This study aims to design and write a professional Development Plan with a deeper understanding and knowledge acquired in the classroom, the wider reading and research to support my findings and assertions and be able...
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...Personal Development involves holistic advancement of various attributes of an individual. There are several components involved in this that ensure the holistic developments. This helps in the achievement of social, emotional and mental maturity (DeCenzo & Silhanek, 2002, p. 144). In order to enhance the holistic development of a person, there are certain activities that can be undertaken towards the promotion of efficient development. These activities should be done continuously to ensure progressive growth of the individual. On the other hand, a lot of expertise should also be involved in order to develop the desirable characteristics that will result into object and autonomous life decisions. Several organizations have adopted training programs in an attempt to enhance individuals’ performance. These programs are believed to enhance mental development. However, they also involve various components that enhance the holistic development of the people undergoing training (DeCenzo & Silhanek, 2002, p. 149). At the places of work, training programs have been widely used because they are designed to enhance professional development professional advancement in various fields. If certain skills are lacking, the program will be tailored to cover the gap that is experienced. As a result of this, effectiveness and efficiency can be achieved in the organization. The training programs will help in the achievement of various short term goals. Initially, the achievement of certain professional...
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...A Personal and Professional Development Portfolio Contents Introduction 3 1.1 Evaluate approaches to self-managed learning 4 Seminars and Conferences 5 Social Networks and bulletin boards 5 Surfing the different website with Internet 5 Learning from others 5 Learning through research 6 News groups, Mentoring/coaching, Interviews 6 1.2 Propose ways in which lifelong learning in personal and professional contexts could be encouraged 6 1.3 Evaluate the benefits of self-managed learning to the individual and the organization 7 2.1 Evaluate own current skills and competencies against professional standards and organizational objectives 8 2.2 Identify own development needs and the activities required to meet them 9 2.3 Identify development opportunities to meet current and future defined needs 10 2.4 Devise a personal and professional development plan based on identified needs 10 3.1 Discuss the processes and activities required to implement the development plan 11 3.2 Undertake and document development activities as planned 12 3.3 Reflect critically on own learning against original aims and objectives set in the development plan 13 3.4 Update the development plan based on feedback and evaluation 14 4.1 Identify the reasons for cessation of employment with an organization 15 4.2 Describe the employment exit procedures used by two organizations 16 4.3 Consider the impact of the legal and regulatory framework on employment cessation...
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...WILKINSON INTRODUCTION Wilkinson Company history begins about 83 years ago, started by James Kemsey Wilkinson as a family business, consisting in a small shop in Leicester. After about 2 years, followed the opening of the second store, in 1969 reaching up to hold more than 28 stores and the annual turnover was £ 2.4 million. In 1973, appeared the first own brand product Wilko closely followed by 23 other products belonging to the company. In the 90's the company selling over 13,000 products and have in its portfolio over 24 million consumers. In 2000 there were already 246 Wilkinson stores all over the UK and in 2003 thus achieving an annual turnover of £ 1 billion. In 2010 the company proposed that by 2013 have 500 stores in UK but due to economic problems and taking into account the effects of the global crisis Wilkinson company stopped expansion and focused on maintaining the over 370 stores that currently holds. (Wilkinson,2013) Company's vision is : ,, Extraordinary everyday shopping in the heart of the community’’ and its mission is how the company operates with passion and respecting their values in order to achieve this vision. (Wilkinson,2013) Regarding the products it sells, the company offers a wide range of products for home: from furniture, garden products, kids toys, stationery products, decorations, health & beauty products and addressing all categories of persons, regardless of age, gender, income or education. Wilkinson has over 23,000 employees dedicated to it...
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...Personal & Professional Development Taking responsibility for one’s personal and professional development. Prepared By: Marcos Fielder Prepared for: Marc Gallagher Submission date: 17th April 2013 Contents Introduction _______________________________________________________________ 3 Task 2.1 – Evaluating Skill and Competencies_____________________________________4 Task 2.2 – Own Development Needs____________________________________________5 Task 2.3 – Identify Development Opportunities____________________________________6 Task 2.4 – Personal and Professional Plan________________________________________7 Conclusion ________________________________________________________________ 8 References ________________________________________________________________ 9 Bibliography ______________________________________________________________10 Introduction In this assignment I will be talking about skills, competencies and develop needs. I’ll show that I have the ability to take responsibility for my own personal and professional development. The development of the individual in both, personal and professional life depends on the motivation and personal effort. However, it must take into consideration the cultural factor and the social and environmental conditions that the individual are inserted. Together these factors contribute to the formation of a person succeeds or fails. Task 2.1: Evaluate your current skills and competencies...
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...Practitioner Activity 3 – Ability to reflect on own practice and development needs and maintain a plan for personal development Assessment Activity – 4DEP-F301A-(HR) Issued in September 2013 Name: To be inserted CIPD No: To be inserted Contents Ability to reflect on own practice and development needs and maintain a plan for personal development 3 Self-assessment against the CIPD Associate Membership Criteria –AC3.2 3 Development Plan and Records – AC3.4 3 Definition and Importance of Continuing Professional Development – AC3.1 3 Discussion with the Tutor (Optional) –AC3.1 4 Development Options for meeting my CPD needs – AC3.3 4 Appendix A – Development plan and records 5 Development Plan – 1 September 2013 to 31 August 2014 5 Development Records for the period – 1 September 2013 to 31 August 2014 5 Development Plan – 1 September 2014 to 31 August 2015 5 Ability to reflect on own practice and development needs and maintain a plan for personal development This is probably the most demanding section! Self-assessment against the CIPD Associate Membership Criteria –AC3.2 Once you have downloaded the AM criteria, you should be able to identify activities, knowledge and behaviours that you will need to develop. You should now see where the detailed information from activity one is useful. You should have detailed information on one of the areas and the behaviours for your development plan. You will need to review the remaining activities just to ensure...
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...Assess your personal knowledge and skills against competency standards such as enterprise specific competencies or nationally endorsed units of competency. My qualification/s and or transcript/s | Qualification/s cover these courses and or units delivered by MOM | My experience as describedbelow and can be verified | Experience Covers these courses and or units delivered by MOM | CHC60202 Advance Diploma of Children services | CHC30712 Certificate III in Children Services CHC50908 Diploma of Children ServicesCHC60208 Advance Diploma of Children ServicesCHC41212 Certificate IV in Children Services (OSHC)CHC51012 Diploma in Children Services (OSHC)CHC30812 Certificate III in Education Support (following units only) * HLTOHS300B - Contribute to OHS processes * CHCCHILD401A - Identify and respond to children and young people at risk * CHCCN301B - Ensure the health and safety of children * CHCCN302A - Provide care for children * CHCIC301E - Interact effectively with children * HLTFA301C - Apply first aid * HLTHIR403C - Work effectively with culturally diverse clients and co-workers | I worked in the Child care industry for 16 years before becoming a Trainer and Assessor for the last 4 yearsMy duties over this time included working as an assistant , group leader, casual float as well as a Director, My skills include * Working with children, all age groups including children in OSHC up to 12 years old. * OHS procedures * Working with families * Working...
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...ASSESSMENT ON CREATING A DYNAMIC CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN OF LEADERSHIP SKILLS Course: Developing personal and professional leadership practice Lecturer: Jill Machon /Jill Fortune Submission Date: 28TH March 2015 Nominal Word Count: 1000 Question: You should seek to show your progress during your studies, taking a critical approach and ensuring all your learning experiences inform your views. You should adapt and amend your plan as new information becomes available, ensuring that you can justify any changes made - keeping a reflective diary may be a way of achieving this. Steps * Introduction (100 words) * Section 1: * Section 2: * Section 3: * Section 4: * Section 5: * Conclusion (100 words) Assessment criteria Using knowledge of theories and concepts from the course reflect upon application and progression of learning and how this will affect/impact on your future management and leadership practice Excellent knowledge of theories and concepts from the course to reflect upon application and progression of learning and how this will affect/impact on your future management and leadership practice. Excellent ability to demonstrate an understanding of the impact of management and leadership practice in the wider organisational community. INTRODUCTION Continuing professional development (CPD) is recognised as a commitment by professionals to continually maintain and enhance their skills and knowledge with a view to support their...
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